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euphronius posted:The best grantlanders didn’t go to the ringer. I like most of the podcasts bill does tho. He’s a pro podcaster. Who are the best Grantlanders? Because at this point like 3/4 of that staff writes for the Ringer on at least a freelance basis, and they just hired the most obviously talented of the bunch.
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Molly Lambert, Wesley Morris, Charles Pierce, Alex Pappademas, Emily Yoshida, Jay Caspian Kang. To name a few.
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soggybagel posted:Molly Lambert, Wesley Morris, Charles Pierce, Alex Pappademas, Emily Yoshida, Jay Caspian Kang. To name a few. This and Jonathan Abrams. Grantland wasn’t without it’s awful garbage but the balance there was wayyyy better. Also, the design of Grantland was way less obnoxious.
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Zach Lowe, Goldsberry, N3twork and Shea were also great.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Update on the Jon Bois/Felix Biederman MMA thing fairly sure felix lurked/lurks the psp threads so this could be interesting. and i think everyone likes jon bois so that's exciting. there's a fuckload of MMA history that is super fertile ground for longform stuff. Pride-era/any of the insane kickboxing criminal stuff
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:there's a fuckload of MMA history that is super fertile ground for longform stuff. Pride-era/any of the insane kickboxing criminal stuff there are many other candidates, but every MMA/pro wrestling fan on the planet needs to know the story of Yoji Anjoh getting his rear end beat by Rickson Gracie
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Fauxhawk Express posted:there are many other candidates, but every MMA/pro wrestling fan on the planet needs to know the story of Yoji Anjoh getting his rear end beat by Rickson Gracie yeah or mark hunt trying to throw that dude out the window or any of the hammer house-chute boxe stuff.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:fairly sure felix lurked/lurks the psp threads so this could be interesting. and i think everyone likes jon bois so that's exciting. Even early UFC is pretty wild, you could probably do multiple videos on the freakshow nature of the first few cards alone
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Even early UFC is pretty wild, you could probably do multiple videos on the freakshow nature of the first few cards alone Marco Ruas at like 200lbs taking down 300+ lb Paul Varlens using basically nothing but leg kicks was pretty rad though. I'm not sure I want to read about the effects on the human body the old tournament format caused though.
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Lockback posted:Marco Ruas at like 200lbs taking down 300+ lb Paul Varlens using basically nothing but leg kicks was pretty rad though. Keith Hackney getting punched in the nuts a half dozen times by future Austin Powers actor and convicted torturer (would have been rape but for the statute of limitations) Joe Son was pretty amazing. Edit: Oh, forgot, he was also convicted of manslaughter for killing his cell mate in prison. Nice guy. Mr. Funny Pants fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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You could do docs about... -Lee Murray robbing that bank -the McCain crusade against MMA -Jon Jones’ parade of fuckups -Ken Shamrock’s hosed up life -the legend of Rickson Gracie -PrideFC -Diaz Brothers -Dennis Hallman’s banana hammock -Kimbo Slice -Rampage Jackson The Lee Murray one is an absolute must. Personally, I want a good 30-40 minute doc on the Joe Riggs-Nick Diaz hospital fight Truther Vandross fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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Do a doc about the 90-minute Royce-Sakuraba fight.
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sportsgenius86 posted:You could do docs about... any good resources to read about this stuff? i only know boxing stuff
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rampage now theres a name i haven't heard in a long time
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sportsgenius86 posted:You could do docs about... Alleged tank abbot abducting toothless meth strippers with Joe Rogan.
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iwentdoodie posted:Alleged tank abbot abducting toothless meth strippers with Joe Rogan. tank abbott's career as a barber and beard shaver
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I want a video about Emanuel Yarborough getting bodied not once but twice by way smaller dudes
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Declan MacManus posted:any good resources to read about this stuff? i only know boxing stuff the kickboxing thread in psp is honestly one of the best ever threads on the forums. there was a link in there not long ago to a guy who ran a blog about the dutch underworld which is a complete venn diagram overlap with the Dutch martial arts scene, but i can't find it
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:the kickboxing thread in psp is honestly one of the best ever threads on the forums. there was a link in there not long ago to a guy who ran a blog about the dutch underworld which is a complete venn diagram overlap with the Dutch martial arts scene, but i can't find it that’s fascinating, i’ll check it out when i have time to kill
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There's probably a great thread in people just retelling the ridiculous stories that orbit around their favourite sports/leagues/promotions, because god knows there's enough of them.
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The Kins posted:There's probably a great thread in people just retelling the ridiculous stories that orbit around their favourite sports/leagues/promotions, because god knows there's enough of them. theres a thread of just the like 2015 nba offseason where marc cuban was driving around impersonating a dominos driver to try to find deandre jordan who barricaded his door in with blake griffin that season was wild
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Ramadu posted:theres a thread of just the like 2015 nba offseason where marc cuban was driving around impersonating a dominos driver to try to find deandre jordan who barricaded his door in with blake griffin like a week ago a player demanded a trade, his team refused, so he showed up to practice, yelled at management, beat the first string team with the third string team, declared that the team needed him to win, then walked out of practice and did an interview on espn about it nba owns
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The Kins posted:There's probably a great thread in people just retelling the ridiculous stories that orbit around their favourite sports/leagues/promotions, because god knows there's enough of them. Agreed. MMA just has a different take because until very recently it was so hidden. That straight up outlaw poo poo in the early promotions (or all of the eastern European promotions still) is goddamn fascinating. What other sport has a dude who sets records and gets shown on primetime/ppv who was basically a terrorist or at the very least supported invading terrorists? Because mma has more than one. Plus numerous murderers who were huge.
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For the podcast fans in here: - Boston Globe is a few episodes into an Aaron Hernandez serialized podcast called Gladiator. - Charlotte Observer has one about Rae Carruth and all 7 episodes drop tomorrow. - SI is doing one on Steve McNair that starts on Wednesday.
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sportsgenius86 posted:For the podcast fans in here: I'm kind of conflicted about the true crime gold rush of the last few years. It's not like people haven't been reporting on these stories for years, but seeing everyone chase the whiff of money post-Serial makes everything feel a little more transparent
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sportsgenius86 posted:You could do docs about... A full doc about the don frye vs yoshihiro takayama fight where they only punch each other in the face.
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morestuff posted:I'm kind of conflicted about the true crime gold rush of the last few years. It's not like people haven't been reporting on these stories for years, but seeing everyone chase the whiff of money post-Serial makes everything feel a little more transparent Carruth is timely because isn't he about to get out?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Carruth is timely because isn't he about to get out? A week from today it looks like.
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iwentdoodie posted:MMA just has a different take because until very recently it was so hidden. That straight up outlaw poo poo in the early promotions (or all of the eastern European promotions still) is goddamn fascinating.
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The Kins posted:My favorite was the trainwreck that was Dynamite!! USA, wherein one fighter tested positive for methamphetamines and another for nandrolone levels so high that the laboratory tests could not accurately measure it. Also an NFL player getting brutally KO'd by a comedian
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The Kins posted:My favorite was the trainwreck that was Dynamite!! USA, wherein one fighter tested positive for methamphetamines and another for nandrolone levels so high that the laboratory tests could not accurately measure it. quote:The paid gate for the event was $2,545,590. However, the promoters of the event paid $2,342,500 of that to buy 39,083 tickets to its own event. The final verified paid attendance number for K-1 Dynamite stands at 3,674 which generated $203,090 in revenue. Amazing.
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I feel like the stories about pro sports from around whenever the cocaine boom began in the 70's until around 2000 or so could be a 30 for 30 episode or mini-series itself. Adding cocaine to a profession filled with people paid to be aggressive was a bomb waiting to go off. You had Hollywood Henderson doing blow during SBXIII, Tim Raines being so hooked he slid head first not because of grit or whatever but to protect the stash he had hidden in his socks, Lawrence Taylor trying to snort the country of Colombia, Dan Marino, Dwight Gooden, the Johnson-era Cowboys, Steve Howe, Jamal Anderson, Robert Eddins, Oil Can Boyd, Michael Ray Richardson, Len Bias, the '85 MLB drug trial, Daryl Strawberry, Roy Tarpley, Rich Dumas, and so on. Mind you, I use 2000 as a cap off, but you have Jose Fernandez, Jamal Lewis, whatever the gently caress Esteban Loaiza was up to, and then there's this article https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/major-league-baseball-cocaine_us_597b505ae4b02a4ebb75150b El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Ramadu posted:theres a thread of just the like 2015 nba offseason where marc cuban was driving around impersonating a dominos driver to try to find deandre jordan who barricaded his door in with blake griffin
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The best thing about the MLB drug trial was finding out that the Pirates mascot was one of the coke dealers.
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soggybagel posted:The problem with the ringer is the problem with every contemporary site. The constant need for a churning front page with new “content” everyday. Even if you dedicate months and resources for a in depth 15k word article it’s “old” after a day. Things like “instant reaction to Venom” take little effort and are basically “let’s take a slack discussion and make it an article.” That's a huge problem with a lot of these sites. No point in pushing a 2-month longform piece when those pageviews count the same as the one's for an article thrown together over lunch about which Westworld character resembles which NBA coach. I still think in the long run, quality writing is going to have to come from subscriptions. You can already see it in the entertainment industry. Network TV is mostly junk people will consume but few would pay for. And the quality is sitting behind pay services like HBO. That leaves me a bit of hope for The Athletic. Also I doubt The Ringer makes money on the writing side. Those podcasts though print money. It's insane how much money is out there for big podcasters.
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i have to imagine that eventually the rate of podcasts being started will eventually overtake the rate of ad revenue growth and they’ll stop being profitable because that’s just the way capitalism works the market for podcasts hasn’t even begun to be tapped out (i think it’s something like 21% of people have listened to podcasts in the past month while only 55% of americans even know what a podcast is) but it’s hard to imagine a world where it isn’t oversaturated as soon as companies can decide the best way to monetize it i suppose the saving grace is the low barrier of entry means that people can always start podcasts even if they don’t make much off of them
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chunkles posted:i feel like it'll bottom out as soon as DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB goes out of business I still don’t understand how Sherry’s Berries can have as much money as they seem to based on advertising frequency
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